Car crash damages Poland's famous Solidarity wall

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police say a car crash has knocked down a historic wall that unemployed electrician Lech Walesa jumped over in 1980 to lead a Gdansk shipyard strike that grew into the country's massive Solidarity freedom movement.

Part of the Gdansk Shipyard wall was placed in downtown Gdansk as a symbol of the drive for freedom in the 1980s that eventually toppled communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

A spokeswoman for the Gdansk police, Aleksandra Siewert, said Tuesday that section of the wall was destroyed when a car crashed into it after colliding Monday with another car. It was not immediately clear if or when the wall could be repaired.